South African Safari For the second leg of our honeymoon, we went on an amazing South African safari! (catch up on our first stop, here!) After many hours of research, we settled on Kapama Karula, a luxury safari experience inside of the Kapama Private Game Reserve. The reserve is home to the Big 5 (Lion, Rhino, […]

Mauritius Island The Sands Resort on Mauritius island was the first stop on our two-week-long honeymoon. Mauritius is a small island off the coast of Madagascar with a population of just over 1 million. The island is clearly not the most easily accessible beach destination for us, but Caline and I wanted to do South […]

Admirals Club Rio It has been a long time coming, but Rio Galeao International Airport has finally (mostly) completed its expansion/renovation. There were hopes that it would have been completed in time for the World Cup in 2014, but that didn’t happen. With days to spare, the new terminal opened in time for the 2016 […]

jetBlue Mileage Run This year has been tough for anyone who has occasionally (or frequently) used a mileage run to quickly pad their airline mileage balance. With most airlines shifting towards a revenue based earning platform, you could say that the mileage run is dead. We were fortunate enough to get in one last run […]

Priority Pass Lounge Boston I recently had the pleasure of flying jetBlue from Boston to New York (and immediately back). It was a pleasure mainly because I paid $90 and will earn 75,000 jetBlue miles thanks to their challenge/promotion to get Virgin America customers. It was also a pleasure to fly an American airline with […]

American Airlines Cole Haan Amenity Earlier this year American introduced a new line of amenity kits by Cole Haan for first and business class customers, replacing their older Heritage Collection kits. While I don’t personally get much use out of the kits while flying, it is a nice touch, and there are some decent goodies inside. The bag itself […]

Hilton London Heathrow As part of our family trip to London, we ended up staying at the Hilton London Heathrow Airport Hotel for our first night. Since our flight landed around 11pm local time, we made the decision to not make the trek into the city on our first night. We knew we wanted to […]